Photoshop Online Within Six Months 179
scobrown writes "Adobe is going to create a software-as-a-service version of photoshop that it will initially be offering for free. It should be available within 6 months. It is supposed to be ad supported... but we'll see how long that lasts"
Platform-independent, I hope (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:Platform-independent, I hope (Score:5, Insightful)
Next business opp. (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:GIMP online 7 years ago (Score:2, Insightful)
Anyone remember Photo Deluxe? (Score:5, Insightful)
I used to use an app from Adobe called "Photo Deluxe". It was based on the Photoshop engine, but with the interface totally changed and cut down (more so than Elements). I wouldn't have considered that Photoshop, and I suspect that this online service will be even more simplified. Calling it Photoshop is likely just a branding exercise.
Re:GIMP online 7 years ago (Score:3, Insightful)
[Trying to avoid Gimp-zealot flame: There are things that Gimp does better than Photoshop (the histogram comes to mind) and Gimp certainly is the best freeware graphics program out there, but Gimp is in general not as good as Photoshop when it comes to functions and usability]
Where is the CPU? (Score:5, Insightful)
Probably not going to be a huge deal, but those real-time previews of CPU intensive filters are nice on the machine local installation; only hope those make it to the online as well.
Re:Where is the CPU? (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Platform-independent, I hope (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Platform-independent, I hope (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:GIMP online 7 years ago (who cares?) (Score:1, Insightful)
Re:Platform-independent, I hope (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Platform-independent, I hope (Score:2, Insightful)
Lets do the math
1500 x 1500 pixels = 2.25 million pixels
4 bytes per pixel = 9MB per layer
30 layers = 270MB of image data.
That doesn't count memory consumed by the undo system, which can quickly get very large.
Plus the amount consumed by Photoshop itself.
Plus the fact that rather than composite 30 layers on the fly whenever a window is invalidated, there is undoubtedly some amount of paint caching going on, probably the equivalent of several more layers worth of data.
The 120MB that the file consumes when stored in some compressed format on disk is just the tip of the iceberg here.